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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
46
Citations
6135
World Ranking
4715
National Ranking
1639

Michael Tobler publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Tobler sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 176 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Michael Tobler D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Tobler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael Tobler is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans various subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Aquatic Science.

Their research topics focus primarily on physiological and biochemical adaptations, fish ecology and management studies, animal behavior and reproduction, genetic diversity and population structure, aquaculture nutrition and growth, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, and fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

Michael Tobler has published multiple papers in leading scientific journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Convergent evolution of conserved mitochondrial pathways underlies repeated adaptation to extreme environments, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation changes in fish living in hydrogen sulfide-rich springs, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Wood Ash as an Additive in Biomass Pyrolysis: Effects on Biochar Yield, Properties, and Agricultural Performance, 2022, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • microRNA expression variation as a potential molecular mechanism contributing to adaptation to hydrogen sulphide, 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Impacts of heavy metal pollution on the ionomes and transcriptomes of Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), 2022, Molecular Ecology

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Michael Tobler collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, with whom they have published multiple times. Frequent collaborators are:

  • Lenin Arias-Rodríguez
  • Joanna L. Kelley
  • Ryan Greenway
  • Nick Barts
  • Anthony P. Brown

Their body of work notably addresses animal adaptations to extreme environmental conditions and pollution impacts, with significant contributions toward understanding molecular mechanisms underlying evolutionary responses in fish populations.

Best Publications

  • Oxidative stress and life histories: unresolved issues and current needs

    John R. Speakman;John R. Speakman;Jonathan D. Blount;Anne M. Bronikowski;Rochelle Buffenstein

  • Toxic hydrogen sulfide and dark caves: phenotypic and genetic divergence across two abiotic environmental gradients in Poecilia mexicana.

    Michael Tobler;Michael Tobler;Thomas J. DeWitt;Ingo Schlupp;Francisco J. García de León

  • Life on the edge: hydrogen sulfide and the fish communities of a Mexican cave and surrounding waters

    Michael Tobler;Michael Tobler;Ingo Schlupp;Ingo Schlupp;Katja U. Heubel;Rüdiger Riesch

  • Evolution in extreme environments: replicated phenotypic differentiation in livebearing fish inhabiting sulfidic springs.

    Michael Tobler;Maura Palacios;Lauren J. Chapman;Igor Mitrofanov

  • Replicated hybrid zones of Xiphophorus swordtails along an elevational gradient

    Z. W. Culumber;H. S. Fisher;M. Tobler;M. Tobler;M. Mateos

  • Sexual harassment in live-bearing fishes (Poeciliidae): comparing courting and noncourting species

    Martin Plath;Martin Plath;Amber M. Makowicz;Ingo Schlupp;Michael Tobler;Michael Tobler

  • Mechanisms Underlying Adaptation to Life in Hydrogen Sulfide–Rich Environments

    Joanna L. Kelley;Lenin Arias-Rodriguez;Dorrelyn Patacsil Martin;Muh-Ching Yee

  • Parallel evolution of cox genes in H2S-tolerant fish as key adaptation to a toxic environment

    Markus Pfenninger;Hannes Lerp;Michael Tobler;Courtney Passow

  • Local adaptation and pronounced genetic differentiation in an extremophile fish, Poecilia mexicana, inhabiting a Mexican cave with toxic hydrogen sulphide.

    M. Plath;J. S. Hauswaldt;K. Moll;M. Tobler;M. Tobler

  • Survival in an extreme habitat: the roles of behaviour and energy limitation

    Martin Plath;Martin Plath;Martin Plath;Michael Tobler;Michael Tobler;Rüdiger Riesch;Rüdiger Riesch;Francisco J. García de León

  • Testing the ecological consequences of evolutionary change using elements

    Punidan D. Jeyasingh;Rickey D. Cothran;Michael Tobler

  • Physiological adaptation along environmental gradients and replicated hybrid zone structure in swordtails (Teleostei: Xiphophorus).

    Z.W. Culumber;D.B. Shepard;S.W. Coleman;G.G. Rosenthal

  • Natural and sexual selection against immigrants maintains differentiation among micro-allopatric populations.

    M. Tobler;R. Riesch;C. M. Tobler;T. Schulz-Mirbach

  • Divergence in trophic ecology characterizes colonization of extreme habitats

    Michael Tobler

  • Colonisation of toxic environments drives predictable life-history evolution in livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae).

    Rüdiger Riesch;Rüdiger Riesch;Martin Plath;Ingo Schlupp;Michael Tobler

  • Influence of black spot disease on shoaling behaviour in female western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis (Poeciliidae, Teleostei)

    Michael Tobler;Michael Tobler;Ingo Schlupp

  • Epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation changes in fish living in hydrogen sulfide-rich springs.

    Joanna L Kelley;Michael Tobler;Daniel Beck;Ingrid Sadler-Riggleman

  • Convergent evolution of conserved mitochondrial pathways underlies repeated adaptation to extreme environments

    Ryan Greenway;Nick Barts;Chathurika Henpita;Anthony P. Brown

  • Extreme environments and the origins of biodiversity: Adaptation and speciation in sulphide spring fishes.

    Michael Tobler;Joanna L. Kelley;Martin Plath;Rüdiger Riesch

  • GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AND SELECTION AGAINST MIGRANTS IN EVOLUTIONARILY REPLICATED EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

    Martin Plath;Markus Pfenninger;Hannes Lerp;Rüdiger Riesch;Rüdiger Riesch

  • The Evolutionary Ecology of Animals Inhabiting Hydrogen Sulfide–Rich Environments

    Michael Tobler;Courtney N. Passow;Ryan Greenway;Joanna L. Kelley

  • Yolk androgens and the development of avian immunity: an experiment in jackdaws (Corvus monedula).

    Maria I Sandell;Michael Tobler;Dennis Hasselquist

  • Compensatory behaviour in response to sulphide-induced hypoxia affects time budgets, feeding efficiency, and predation risk

    Michael Tobler;Ruediger W. Riesch;Courtney M. Tobler;Martin Plath

  • Environmental variation, hybridization, and phenotypic diversification in Cuatro Ciénegas pupfishes

    M. Tobler;E. W. Carson

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Plath
Martin Plath Universidade de São Paulo
Ingo Schlupp
Ingo Schlupp University of Oklahoma
Rüdiger Riesch
Rüdiger Riesch Royal Holloway University of London
Ralph Tiedemann
Ralph Tiedemann University of Potsdam
Kirk O. Winemiller
Kirk O. Winemiller Texas A&M University
Markus Pfenninger
Markus Pfenninger Goethe University Frankfurt
Bruno Streit
Bruno Streit Goethe University Frankfurt
Gary Voelker
Gary Voelker Texas A&M University
Gil G. Rosenthal
Gil G. Rosenthal University of Padua
Manfred Schartl
Manfred Schartl University of Würzburg

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R. Brian Langerhans

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Ole Seehausen

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